From ad524d46f36bbc32033bb72ba42958f12bf49b06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:21:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits. When a 64-bit x86 processor runs in 32-bit PAE mode, a pte can potentially have the same number of physical address bits as the 64-bit host ("Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging"). This means, in theory, we could have up to 52 bits of physical address in a pte. The 32-bit kernel uses a 32-bit unsigned long to represent a pfn. This means that it can only represent physical addresses up to 32+12=44 bits wide. Rather than widening pfns everywhere, just set 2^44 as the Linux x86_32-PAE architectural limit for physical address size. This is a bugfix for two cases: 1. running a 32-bit PAE kernel on a machine with more than 64GB RAM. 2. running a 32-bit PAE Xen guest on a host machine with more than 64GB RAM In both cases, a pte could need to have more than 36 bits of physical, and masking it to 36-bits will cause fairly severe havoc. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed